How Can Real Housewives Of New York Star Bethenny Frankel Help PETA By Posing Nude?
Butt seriously: a nude Bethenny Frankel will now greet tourists and New Yorkers on a giant billboard near Manhattan’s Times Square. Emblazoned with the text “Fur? I’d Rather go Naked,” the traffic-stopping ad (shot by photographer Joseph Cultice) is the latest from PETA, of which the Real Housewives of New York star is now a supporter. Find out which other celeb recently doffed their duds for a PETA campaign. Frankel gets bonus points, too: she was pregnant when the au naturel shot was taken. “It’s so tasteful and beautifully done,” she told the New York Post. “I am especially pleased because it doesn’t look like there’s been any airbrushing and I was already pregnant when I shot it.” See which other stars will soon become parents. The cookbook author and reality star — who’ll return for the third season of Real Housewives as well as star in her own Bravo series — admits that she “used to wear fur” like her socialite friends. After she encountered a PETA protester holding a sign of a
Here’s one way to stop traffic! Commuters passing through New York’s Times Square will get a surprising welcome upon seeing a giant billboard plastered with an image of a nude Bethenny Frankel. The “Real Housewives of New York” star bared all for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ newest “I’d Rather go Naked” campaign, in which the reformed fur wearer posed au naturel in front of the Manhattan skyline. Though her slim figure is on display, Frankel was actually pregnant at the time of the September photo shoot shot by celebrity photographer Joseph Cultice atop a luxury high-rise building in the lower East Side. The reality star, now three months pregnant with her first child with fiancé Jason Hoppy, says she changed her fur-wearing ways after encountering a PETA protester holding a “skinned animal.” “It made me sick. I felt disgusting,” she told the animal rights organization. “I’m cleaning out my closets — trim, everything. I’m a really big animal lover. I don’t see any reas
Real Housewives of NYC star Bethenny Frankel won’t take her clothes off for just anyone. PETA got Frankel’s support for their anti-fur campaign, even though she was pregnant at the time of the shoot. Frankel weighs in on how much Photoshopping was involved. Now she’s on the street as well — in Times Square, that is. Today, a 58-foot billboard was unveiled featuring the 16-week pregnant star fully nude as part of PETA’s “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” campaign.
